Campaign Log

Due to the lack of a time machine, last Wednesday at Pawn & Pint will be abbreviated this week.

The party, having left Gemma’s Cave and the abandoned city (because they didn’t want to release the “World Eater”) decided to head back to civilization and the city of Vantar. On the way, they encountered three Senzar soldiers who were frightened and fleeing a pack of wild animals.

Rowan agreed to accept their surrender and take them back to Vantar. However, as they camped for the night, a couple members of the party (or perhaps just Elrik) decided he would rather kill them and convinced Quai to do the deed. After which, the two of them tried to place the blame on Rowan.

As the two were in the process of placing evidence on Rowan, a group of bears and mountain lions attacked (the two murderers were supposed to be on watch). Soon to join the attack were also some dire wolves. The bears also tore into the Senzar, disrupting the evidence and then started on the party.

The commotion woke several members of the party and they began to fight the large animals. Gemma and Howl were in Howl’s hut and Gemma started blasting the mountain lions that were near the two of them with crackling energy. Once she realized they were real animals and not something else, she turned her tactic to scaring them off instead of killing them and she and Howl managed turn the three mountain lions away.

The others did manage to kill three brown bears and some dire wolves. The large cave bear turned out to be a druid that had gone made for some reason. The party managed to subdue him after he was forced back into human form. They then discovered a necklace around his neck that had Senzar writing on it and was magical.

Elrik, who had already determined there was madness in the druid, tried to identify the necklace (asking the others to knock him unconscious if he should act oddly) and lost his battle with the intelligence. He then turned on his party (even more than normal). They managed to knock him out, though not all of the damage was nonlethal.

During the commotion, the druid turned into a small cat and escaped.

Afterwards, they tried to bury the necklace, though Elrik (who turned out to be a woman who is always appearing as a man), dug it up and became affected by it a second time. After which, they knocked him/her out a second time buried the necklace in a more secluded place.

They then ventured to Vantar, where the party decided to use some of their money to resupply.